dominant

huippusävel

hallitseva

laajalle levinnyt

dominantti puhekieltä The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
puhekieltä The triad built on the dominant tone.
puhekieltä A gene that is dominant.
1930, R. A. Fisher, ‎J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (page 50)

Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.

Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.

His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.

The dominant party controlled the government.

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, (..) but imperious, insolent, and cruel.

The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.

All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.